Sharmeen’s A Girl in the River — The Price of Forgiveness depicts the horror of honour killing within Pakistan. The documentary’s protagonist, a girl quite literally being thrown into the river by her father and uncle, manages to survive being killed in the name of ‘honour’. With the aid of the local police, she gets her assaulters arrested but is then pressurised by her family to forgive them, and allow them to go free
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Pakistan: How ’A Girl in the River’ helped end honour killing in Pakistan
13 October 2016, by siawi3 -
Tunisie : Crime d’honneur, droits de « l’homme » -pas de droits des femmes
18 juin 2014, par siawi3Eya, 13 ans, vient de décéder. Son père l’a brà »lée vive, car elle était rentrée de l’école avec un camarade de classe.
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Statement by UN Women on passage of anti-honour killing and anti-rape bills
12 October 2016, by siawi3In seeking to curb the murder of women and girls in the name of honour and to punish rapists by making DNA testing mandatory in rape cases, the new laws are an important step towards ensuring the protection of and justice for the women of Pakistan.
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Domestic violence in Turkey reaches boiling point
13 July 2015, by siawi3Honor killings - no longer for men only ! Could one woman’s act of defiance begin to challenge an established culture of patriarchy?
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No honour in killing
9 September 2015, by siawi3Interview with Deeyah Khan, Filmmaker, on honour killings and on the honour killing of Banaz Mahmood. The UN conservatively estimates that 5,000 women and girls are killed each year by members of their own family.
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’Honor’ Killing: The Crimewave that Shames the World
8 September 2010, by siawi2Tuesday, September 7, 2010, the Independent/UK
It’s one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of ’honor’. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly.
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India: On Ankit Saxena’s father refusing to communalise his son’s murder - Personalised violence cannot be equated with systematic, normalised violence
12 February 2018, by siawi3India owes Ankit Saxena’s father a debt of gratitude for refusing to communalise his son’s murder
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Pakistan: No Country for Bold Women - A public petition after the murder of Qandeel Baloch
19 July 2016, by siawi3We bury Qandeel Baloch alongside 16-year-old Ambreen burned to death in Abbottabad, Pakistan as punishment for helping a friend escape to marry her beloved; 31-year-old Maria Nemeth disemboweled by her boyfriend Fidel Lopez in Florida, United States; 27-year-old Farkhunda beaten to death by a mob in Kabul, Afghanistan; 37-year-old Miriam Nyazema stabbed 26 times by her British soldier Josphat Mutekedza; the multiple victims of Elliot Rodger a violent, anti-woman killer with a manifesto in California, United States.